Agency Visit

Agency Visit: The Florida Center for Addictions and Dual Disorders The Florida Center for Addictions and Dual Disorders is one of the most recognized rehabilitation facilities in the state of Florida as it is one of the only types of organizations of its type. The Florida Center is the most highly recommended of the three facilities of its kind in the state offering a 62 day and 90 day residency treatment program which specializes in handling clients with co-existing substance abuse and psychiatric disorders (Tri-county Human Services, 2011). The small grey buildings that comprise the Florida Center for Addictions and Dual Disorders are inconspicuously placed near a beautiful nature preserve in the small rural town of Avon Park, Florida. Interviewing the assistant head of the board of clinicians that oversee all decisions made with the Florida Center, Patti Collins, at the Florida Center for Addictions and Dual Disorders on March 31st, 2011, and upon entering the facility, one is overwhelmed by the sense of community amongst the clients and staff whom work and reside there. The Florida Center treats a wide array of clientele which vary extensively in age, culture, disability, and drug of choice (d.o.c.) about 75% of which whom have been sentenced to complete either the 62 or 90 day in-patient treatment program as part of their probation or parole (P. Collins, personal communication, March 31, 2011). The case workers, nurses, doctors, and human services technicians that make up the staff must face a variety of ethical dilemmas on a regular basis. In the interview, Patti expressed that the greatest ethical concern that she feels that most clinicians in the human services field must face is the issue of confidentiality (P.…...

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...Agency Visit Assignment
Purpose
This assignment will provide you with the opportunity to explore potential Field Placement sites, to arrange for a placement, to apply the concepts related to legal and ethical issues in human services, and to identify ethical dilemmas in human services and apply critical thinking skills to the resolution thereof.
Scheduling the Visit
Make arrangements for the agency visit(s) early in the course. Explore agencies in the area whose services are interesting to you. If you are already working in an agency, you may interview a representative of that agency, as long as it is not your direct supervisor. Schedule the visit for no later than the third week of the course.
Information Collection
Collect the following information:
• Agency name
• Name and position of contact
• Date of interview
• Services provided by the agency
• Population served
• Requirements for agency interns
• General ethical dilemmas in the human services profession (from the perspective of the interviewee)
• Ethical dilemmas that are faced by the specific services provided by this agency
• Legal requirements placed on the agency
• Specific efforts required for compliance with legal requirements
• Specific efforts by the agency to assist employees in resolving ethical dilemmas
• System(s) used to collect client/consumer information
• Interviewee’s perceptions of the unique challenges currently facing the human services......

...Assignment – The Visit
English Literature SL
Ms. Glystra
Significance of Minor Characters
The use of dialogue keeps the character alive in a play. If the character is in the play, what other things can the character do than act and be apart of the play. The dialogue assists the character into what he or she should be doing. The place and timing on when and where the characters appear is very important. Not only does settings sets the place and time for the play, it also shows the characters background information on where they come from. Friedrich Durrenmatt uses both these literary techniques to help understand the characters.
The word ‘minor’ refers to something or it could also be someone that is not as important but when having to take the word ‘minor’ and put it in front of the word ‘character’ we would have minor characters. Thus, if labeling the characters minor and major would it have an affect on how we as reader see the characters and if the character is a minor character, would it make any difference if the character were taken out of the play? Usually when thinking about the significance of a character, the main character is more significant than any other characters. However, some minor characters could also hold a significant role. In many television series the killer or the guilty ones are always the ones who watches from the sidewalks or the ones that seems to be too innocent to do it, but don’t let their behavior fool you. In the play The Visit by......

...Agency Costs (Fama and Jensen 1983)
Contracting problem or principal/agent problem.
Agent is person tasked to do something on behalf of the principal.
Jensen and Meckling (1976)
Definition: “ We define an agency relationship as a contract under which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf, this involves delegating some decision making authority to the agent”.
Examples: Patient – Doctor (delegate authority to doctor to choose medication), Client – Lawyer, Client – Taxi Driver.
CEO and management team are agents of the stock holders with aim to raise stock price as high as possible.
Why hire agents?
* To access their skills or expertise(main reason)
* To free up time for other things (Opportunity Cost),
Eg. Tiger Woods does not cut his own grass at home, he knows his grass.
* To fulfil a legal requirement – eg. External Auditor, Priest for marriage.
* To send a signal– eg. Hire best law firm or investment bank in a takeover situation, not necessarily because you need them but because it will intimidate the other side. Eg. Goldman Sachs is our banker.
Signalling to market place
The basic Problem
Agents are utility maximisers concerned mainly with their own happiness. Ie. They do not behave exactly as principal wishes they would.
“If both parties to the relationship are utility maximisers, there is a good reason to believe that the agent will not always......

...Agencies 1
World Wide Regulatory Agencies
Amy Lynn Wooldridge
HCA375: Continuous Quality Monitoring & Accreditation
Instructor: Heather Ables
December 4, 2011
Agencies 2
“Clinical Contract Research Organizations (CROs) provide a range of services from consulting to labor- intensive tasks such as data processing”. (Kaluzny & McLaughlin, 2006, p.318) The majority of CRO growth is accounted for by pharmaceutical & biotechnology industries. The contract research organization is contracted by a sponsor or client to perform several functions and duties related to clinical trials. (Kaluzny & McLaughlin, 2006, p. 319) The clinical trials are designed to obtain regulatory approval to market new pharmaceutical or biotechnology products. (Kaluzny & McLaughlin, 2006, p. 319) The services they perform for such clients as pharmaceutical companies include: “consulting and advice related to the design of drug development programs to labor-intensive services that are part of the drug development process; these include clinical monitoring of investigational sites, data management and statistical analysis, and presentations of regulatory submissions for review by regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration”. (Kaluzny & McLaughlin, 2006, p. 319)
The FDA in the United States clearly mandate practices to protect the public’s health by implementing laws, regulations, and guidelines that provide oversight of the drug......

...ABSTRACT
Agency banking is a new banking concept introduced in Tanzania by the Bank of Tanzania (BOT). The main objective is to increase financial services outreach and to promote financial inclusion to the un-banked and under-banked population without risking the safety and soundness of the banking system. The concept is also geared towards encouraging financial institutions to use agents in the provision of banking services so as to reduce the cost of financial services and to foster financial inclusion, reach and depth. Commercial Banks worldwide offer similar kinds of services, but they could provide differences in terms of service quality. This paper analyzes past studies regarding service quality improvement in the agency banking sector. The continuing trend to a model of service quality improvement, from personnel counter services to electronic services, will be demonstrated. Improved service quality should be adopted to maintain the core competence and this research will contribute towards knowledge and background for banks to apply these findings to better shape and focus their positions in the market and also to provide service quality to customers through the agency banking concept.
Introduction
A banking agent is a retail or postal outlet contracted by a financial institution or a mobile network operator to process clients’ transactions. Rather than a branch teller, it is the owner or an employee of the retail outlet who conducts the transaction and lets......

...CONTRACT OF AGENCY
The general law of contracts is embodied in the Contract Act, 1872. The law of agency being a branch of the law of contracts, the same is incorporated in the said Act by giving it a full chapter on the subject. Thus sections 182 to 238 of the Contract Act, 1872 deal with the subject of Agency. Special enactments are also there and where a provision of a special Act is in conflict with the provision of the general Act, the former shall prevail unless the special law itself states otherwise. The wisdom behind this principle is to maintain consistency in law and to oust any ambiguity or confusion concerning any subject.
PARTIES TO THE CONTRACT OF AGENCY
AGENT AND PRINCIPAL:
AGENT:
Agent is an individual or firm authorized to act on behalf of another (called the principal), such as by executing a transaction or selling and servicing an insurance policy. The agent does not assume any financial risk in the transaction.
The function of the agent is to act on behalf of his principal in bringing about a contract between his principal and a third party. The relationship between principal and agent can arise in many ways, by contract under seal or in writing or verbal, by contract implied from the conduct or situation of the parties and by ratification.
An agent such as a director has a lot of duties for the company. He must act in good faith in the interests of the company. As well, he has duty to avoid actual and potential conflicts of interest. If the......

...Regulatory Agency Paper
University of Phoenix
HCS 430
October 22, 2012
This paper will better inform how the Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) came into existence. The JCAHO is responsible for the accreditation of healthcare organizations nationwide. JCAHO’s goal is to ensure that specific guidelines are meet and that the organizations operate in a safe manner for their patient’s and its employees. The Joint Commissioned Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) came along side of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) which established its program in the early 1900’s until 1952. This agency was responsible for on-site inspections of hospitals. Only a few hospitals meet the requirements of the minimum standard. The start up of JHAC was governed by Arthur W. Allen who sat on the chairman of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) (Saulf, 2005). In 1952 the ACS officially transfers its hospital Standard Program to JHAC this was the start of hospital’s accreditation. In 1953 JHAC publishes their standards for hospital accreditation. As time moves on congress passes the social security amendments in 1965 making this one of the hospital’s provision to be in compliance with the Medicare conditions for the hospital’s to participate in the program. In 1971 the accreditation for long term care is established. The social security act amended that the Secretary of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) validate JHAC......

...Administrative Agencies
This write-up expounds on Group Four’s perspective of how agencies in the United States of America affect our lives. The group has provided a list of agencies that play similar and at times very different roles in ensuring the quality of life we have come to expect is never compromised. The write-up explains some of Group Four members’ real life experiences, offering recommendations as to how one should address the negative impact(s) a particular agencies has had on his or her life. Lastly, the write-up explains the role of the courts in address any negative experiences any individual may have had with any of the agencies and the limitations of the courts’ review of the agencies decisions that lead to the negative impact.
Which agencies regulate some aspect of your lives? The longer the list, the more interesting this exercise should be, so take some time to brainstorm a thorough answer to this question.
Federal Agencies
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
EEOC United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FED Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
FTC Federal Trade Commission
HHS United States Department of Health and Human Services
HRSA Health Resources and Services......

...Xinghua Huang
Adrian Gaskins
BWS 151 Section A
October 5, 2015
Visit museum
I visited the art museum with my classmates and professor on Wednesday in order to understand better about the black world cultures. It was my first time to go there in campus. The moment I arrived there, I found that the building was special. When we walked into it, there was a big painting in front of us. And then there were several rooms to show different kinds objects. There was an area for collecting paintings. There was another area to store camera in the old times. In a word, all the things in it had a long history.
After a short Introduction, we are separated to three groups. My group needed to analysis a big painting which had two cycles. The two cycles contained a sentence, that is, “Just as in the Anatomy of Man, Every Nation Must Have Its Hind Part”. There are few red stars and four different colors in the center. The background of the painting was black and it had a big title “Alabama”. I discussed with my groups. Then I thought that the stars in the center insinuated some places. The sentence in the cycles may stand for freedom spirt of black people.
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...Question 1.
The first agency risk exists between the food suppliers and the Aegean Isles, Inc. One major reason contributing to Aegean Isles’s success is the high-quality and authentic Greek food, which depends on the quality of the perishable raw material and other non-perishable products served in the restaurant. Once the raw material is not fresh or other products are not high-quality, food served at the restaurants will not taste as good as before and this will definitely harm the restaurants’ reputation.
If the new restaurant operates as a company-owned branch, the purchasing unit will be responsible for all the non-perishable inventories and perishable inventories needed. The restaurant managers only have a little authority. Therefore, Aegean Isles can execute better quality control on the products. Also, as Aegean Isles will choose reliable suppliers for long-term cooperation, the likelihood of this agency risk is not that high. However, Aegean Isles has constant suppliers. If one of these suppliers provides stale vegetables or fruits, all the five restaurants controlled by Aegean Isles will be effected negatively. The magnitude of this agency risk is quite high. If the new restaurant operates as a franchise, the franchise will be free to purchase such food as fresh products, domestic beer and wine from a local economy. The franchise may choose second-class products for economic reasons. Aegean Isles can not take much control on the quality of the products. The......

...2015/10/20
A mind map of the 2020 agency
A MIND MAP OF THE 2020
AGENCY
Propulsion, the official blog of Ignition Consulting Group.
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Propulsion
May 27, 2015 | By Tim Williams
It’s appropriate that in the new agency ecosystem that emphasizes best-in-class providers
instead of traditional “full-service” firms, today’s clients have a set of world-class expectations
of their agencies.
Some of these needs are a 21st century version of long-standing agency qualities. But there’s
also a new class of emerging competencies, mostly in response to a new environment for
marketing organizations in which:
1. Established categories of business are being constantly disrupted by innovative new start
ups.
2. Marketing organizations must respond to market forces faster than ever before.
3. Traditional marketing campaigns are clearly losing their effectiveness, requiring much
more marketing invention and experimentation.
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A mind map of the 2020 agency
4. The marketing function is under constant scrutiny for proof of performance and is
increasing under the thumb of finance and operations.
5. Marketers are saddled with the colossal job of central integration, overseeing and
managing the efforts of a large federation of marketing services providers.
6. ......

...entry into Cuba, it is recommended that visitors have a return air ticket and evidence of sufficient funds for the duration of their stay. Travellers arriving with "air only" tickets must show that they have sufficient funds to meet their minimum financial needs (equivalent to CUC 50 per day for the duration of the stay).
Airport Tax
There is a mandatory airport tax of CUC 25 payable only in Cuban convertible pesos.
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When reporting a crime to local police, you should insist on receiving the Comprobante de Denuncia as confirmation that a report has been made. Police officers may speak only Spanish.
Passports and Visas
A valid Canadian passport is required for Canadians intending to visit Cuba. The passport must be valid for at least one month beyond the date of your expected departure from Cuba. Canadians must also carry a tourist card (or visa), or a business or student visa. The tourist card is generally provided by tour operators or airlines, or can be obtained from a Cuban government office in Canada in the case of privately organized flights. It can also be purchased at certain airports in Canada.
Health Insurance
Since May 1, 2010, travellers must present proof of health insurance in order to enter the country. Upon arrival, travellers may be required to present an insurance policy, insurance certificate, or medical assistance card valid for the period of their stay in Cuba. Those who do not have proof of......

...media agency
In association with:
Selecting a
media agency
INTRODUCTION
Whatever their size and experience, advertisers strive for quality, performance and productivity in all disciplines; and media strategy/media buying are no exception. In any discipline, questioning its process may occur at certain times in the lifecycle of an organisation, and this may lead to a media pitch. Over the past years, media planning and buying have come through many changes. Communication groups have turned their media departments into specialised companies and independent media buying shops have strengthened their skills and strategic capabilities. The companies are no longer mere buying points but real media agencies: their competencies have broadened to better meet advertisers’ needs. Today, advertisers face a highly concentrated and sophisticated media agency market, whose players have a high degree of professionalism. Selecting a business partner in this area is therefore a critical step for both the advertiser and the agency, and from both a strategic and ﬁnancial perspective. In this context, this guide aims at helping advertisers and agencies to work together in an informed manner, focusing on quality and performance in their relationships. We propose methods, from deﬁning the objectives to ﬁne-tuning the contractual arrangements, which will allow the advertiser and its media agency to build a new relationship on solid grounds. Rather than identifying the “best” media......